Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART IV: Roman Period
- 22 Juba II of Mauretania
- 23 Isidoros of Charax
- 24 Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- 25 Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea
- 26 Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them
- 27 Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine
- 28 Dionysios Periegetes
- 29 Agathemeros son of Orthon
- 30 Dionysios of Byzantion
- 31 Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great Sea)
- PART V: Late Antique Period
- Sources of Extracts (Selected)
- Works Cited
- Concordances
- Selective Index
23 - Isidoros of Charax
from PART IV: - Roman Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART IV: Roman Period
- 22 Juba II of Mauretania
- 23 Isidoros of Charax
- 24 Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- 25 Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea
- 26 Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them
- 27 Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine
- 28 Dionysios Periegetes
- 29 Agathemeros son of Orthon
- 30 Dionysios of Byzantion
- 31 Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great Sea)
- PART V: Late Antique Period
- Sources of Extracts (Selected)
- Works Cited
- Concordances
- Selective Index
Summary
This chapter presents new, annotated translations of the surviving passage of Isidoros of Charax’s Parthian Stations (written around AD 1–14), together with testimonia and fragments (mostly from Pliny the Elder) arranged as 21 extracts. The chapter introduction shows that Isidoros’ geographical work on the far east of the Roman world, commissioned by Augustus, was far more wide-ranging that the short text we have, which lists stathmoi (stations, stopping-points) within Parthia alone. Partly based upon Artemidoros, it is ‘the only surviving example in Greek of a type of record commonly found in Latin’. New maps show the western and eastern halves of this part of Isidoros’ itinerary, spanning from Mesopotamia to eastern Afghanistan.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 653 - 662Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024